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Thursday Podcast: Stirring it up with Barbara Lynch

By
Steve Dolinsky

Mar. 4, 2010, 12 PM UTC

Thursday Podcast: Stirring it up with Barbara Lynch

By
Steve Dolinsky

Mar. 4, 2010, 12 PM UTC

Barbara Lynch loves vegetables. She'll eat pretty much anything from the ground that's been harvested or picked by some local farmer. But she's also a savvy restaurateur and one of the most talented chefs - male or female - in the country. The Boston native has been as prolific as Rich Melman but with the focused culinary zeal of a Paul Kahan.

Her story is remarkable: growing up in the projects in South Boston (Southie), with her seven siblings and a single mother, she has literally worked her ass off, staging in Italy, paying her dues‚ and learning from the masters. She's about to open her 9th restaurant - in Boston of course - and is now touring on her first cookbook, Stir - Mixing It Up In The Italian Tradition. I met Lynch at Lula in Logan Square this week - over a plate of beets and winter greens - to talk about her career, her love of all things Italian and how to make chicken taste good.